Category Archives: Canada
Quebec electric vehicle law sparks concern within automotive industry
MONTREAL - Automakers are expressing concern that it will be difficult to comply with a new law in Quebec that requires them to sell a minimum number of electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel-cell...
Jan 23, 2017
Quebec terror trial hears arguments over admissibility of confession
MONTREAL - A Quebec man who told undercover police officers he wanted to join the Islamic State in Syria will find out next month whether a judge will allow the comments as evidence at his trial. Isma...
Jan 23, 2017
Court hears RCMP found blood, burning barrel after suspect's arrest
CALGARY - A trial has heard that RCMP mounted what they thought was going to be a rescue mission at the home of a man charged in the disappearance of a couple and their five-year-old grandson. Emergen...
Jan 23, 2017
Help for former kids in Manitoba care should be expanded to age 25: advocate
WINNIPEG - The children’s advocate says the Manitoba government should look at supporting former permanent wards of the province up to age 25 instead of cutting them off at 21. Darlene MacDonald...
Jan 23, 2017
Trump makes good on promise to pull U.S. out of Trans-Pacific Partnership
OTTAWA - Setting itself apart from a never-say-die Japan, Canada resigned itself to the death of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday after President Donald Trump made good on his promise to pull t...
Jan 23, 2017
Owners of Toronto's illegal pot shops not reporting violent robberies: Police
TORONTO - Police say marijuana dispensaries operating illegally in Toronto have been the target of violent, armed robberies but their business owners and employees often don’t report them to aut...
Jan 23, 2017
Striking Chronicle Herald workers mark one-year anniversary of labour dispute
HALIFAX - The union representing striking workers at the Halifax Chronicle Herald are holding rallies throughout Nova Scotia Monday to mark the one-year anniversary of the labour dispute. The Halifax ...
Jan 23, 2017
Canada needn't be 'enormously worried' about U.S. trade reset: Trump official
CALGARY - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau need not be “enormously worried” about a looming overhaul in U.S. trade policy under Donald Trump, an adviser to the new administration said Monday,...
Jan 23, 2017
New Canadians shoot, score full citizenship prior to junior hockey game
SASKATOON - Several people in Saskatchewan have officially dropped the puck on their new lives as Canadian citizens. The group of 20 took the oath of citizenship Sunday at centre ice just before a gam...
Jan 23, 2017
N.S. appoints Mi'kmaq, black women to bench: 'This is a huge step forward'
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has appointed the first Mi’kmaq woman and the third black woman to the provincial and family courts, in what the province’s premier calls a “huge step forward&#...
Jan 23, 2017